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Revisionist Scholarship and Modern Irish Politics (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Revisionist Scholarship and Modern Irish Politics (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as
in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival
political and religious camps have shaped their identities
according to particular interpretations of their shared history. As
such, any re-examination and revision of Irish history has the
potential to have a very real impact upon wider society. Defining
revisionism in historiography as a reaction to contemporary
conflict in Ireland, this book looks at how intellectuals, scholars
and those who were politically involved, have reacted to a crisis
of violence. It explores how they believed that revisionism in
historiography was necessary - that a deconstruction,
re-evaluation, and revision of ideology and therefore history was
crucial in such a crisis of violence. This at times provocative
approach seeks to better understand, clarify and de-mystify the
ongoing revisionist debate in Ireland, through a critique and
exposition of the theory of change and the process and product of
change. Perry argues that revisionism should not be seen as solely
a neutral form of academic or intellectual discourse, but one that
is fundamentally linked to politics at the widest possible level;
that revisionist assumptions underpin the validity and legitimacy
of partition and the Northern Ireland state; that revisionism is
widely judged to be anti-nationalist and pro-unionist; and that it
is myopic with regard to the shortcomings of loyalism and unionism
and has therefore a related ideological effect, if not intended
purpose.
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